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Description: In this book, media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analysing alternative media in various countries. Topics include independent media centres, gay online networks, feminist film and alternative WebMore...

In this book, media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analysing alternative media in various countries. Topics include independent media centres, gay online networks, feminist film and alternative Web discussion forums.

Nick Couldry is Reader in Media, Communications and Culture at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author or editor of five books including Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge 2003), The Place of Media Power (Routledge 2000) and (coedited with James Curran) Contesting Media Power (Rowman and Littlefield 2003).

Tables and Figures

Introduction and Theoretical Perspectives

The Paradox of Media Power

New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism

Beyond the Hall of Mirrors? Some Theoretical Reflections on the Global Contestation of Media Power

In the Shadow of the State

Infoshops in the Shadow of the State

Framing the Future: Indigenous Communication in Australia

The Press Subsidy System in Sweden: A Critical Approach

In the Shadow of the Market

Commercialism and Critique: California's Alternative Weeklies

Has Feminism Caused a Wrinkle on the Face of Hollywood Cinema? A Tentative Appraisal of the '90s

Empire and Communications: Centrifugal and Centripetal Media in Contemporary Russia

In the Shadow of Civil Society and Religion

Liberalization without Full Democracy: Guerrilla Media and Political Movements in Taiwan

The Bishop and His Star: Citizens' Communication in Southern Chile

New Nation: Anachronistic Catholicism and Liberation Theology

Falun Gong, Identity, and the Struggle over Meaning Inside and Outside China

New Media Spaces

Global Journalism: A Case Study of the Internet

The Independent Media Center Movement and the Anarchist Socialist Tradition

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